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<font size="-1"><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">I don't
know why Terry is having the small print. I send it out at about 10 pt.
<br>
<br>
Something happened a few years ago which made font size wildly erratic.
Before <br>
that, in the earlier versions of Windows (and Eudora) everything
arrived just <br>
the size it was sent, and just the font it was sent in, if the
receiving <br>
computer had that font. <br>
<br>
Looking down below, on my monitor, at least, I see everything from 6
point up <br>
to about 12, and fonts sometimes go out as one typeface and come back
as <br>
another. No rhyme or reason to all of this. Whoever got cute when
writing <br>
software, I wish they hadn't. <br>
<br>
Sometimes "upgrades" aren't. <br>
<br>
Susan<br>
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paul bruesch wrote:
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cite="mid:CABSxGu40MWuEK5iY2JRh4uEtJ_64Pj6y6Z8c=dX_DmTnKq6yiA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Or, just press ctrl and + to make it larger, or ctrl and -
to make it smaller... at least on Windows. Not sure what to do on Magic
Macs.
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<div>Paul Bruesch</div>
<div>Stillwater, MN<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:59 PM, David
Lawson <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dlawson@davidlawsonspianos.com.au" target="_blank">dlawson@davidlawsonspianos.com.au</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial">Hi Terry,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Any messages you get with a font too small
or hard to read can be rectified by clicking on the "forward"
or "reply" button, then highlight the text that is hard to read and you
can change the font & size to whatever you like (see below!) </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Hope this helps.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Regards,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Alastair</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">David Lawson's Pianos</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Australia</font></div>
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Original Message ----- </div>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" title="mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com"
href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com" target="_blank">Terry Farrell</a>
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<div
style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" title="pianotech@ptg.org"
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank">pianotech@ptg.org</a> </div>
<div
style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b>
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 7:18 PM</div>
<div
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Re: [pianotech] NY Times article on pianos (OT)</div>
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Susan - I don't know if I am the only one who receives your posts in
the tiny courier font or not, but it is very difficult to read. It is
tiny and looks like you were running out of ink on your ribbon. Is it
possible for you to use a larger, more readable font? I've always
enjoyed your posts, but I have to admit that I tend to not read them
now because the font used is so difficult to read. Or is it on my end?
:-)
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<div>Terry Farrell</div>
<div><br>
<div>
<div>On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Susan Kline wrote:</div>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size="3"><font
face="Arial"><small><font size="4">Hi, Bill <br>
<br>
We can agree to disagree about that. Certainly there's plenty of blame
to go around. <br>
<br>
The predatory lending, and the draconian bankruptcy bill which saddles
young people with debt <br>
for their natural lives, and the vicious collection practices
(pressuring kids to <br>
pay their loans before their rent, their utilities, their food, or
their medicine) <br>
seem to be to be far from blameless. And the way they've set up loans
so if graduates <br>
can't make payments, the principal just mounts up and up -- doubling,
tripling -- <br>
"I owe my soul to the company store" comes to mind. <br>
<br>
It all seems very similar to the mortgages banks sold to people who
obviously would <br>
default. They privatize the profit while socializing the risk. <br>
<br>
I'm done with politics, here. Suffice to say that no one newly
graduated with <br>
a six-figure debt will be able to study piano tuning, or live on a
beginning <br>
tuner's earnings. And that has been going on for decades already. No
wonder <br>
routine work isn't getting done.<br>
<br>
It reminds me of places where the cost of real estate and rent gets so
high <br>
that the service people (gardeners, window cleaners, day care people,
etc.) can't <br>
afford to live within commuting distance. <br>
<br>
It all feels like endgame to me. If things can't get any more expensive
<br>
and complicated and impractical, in the end they will come crashing
down. <br>
<br>
Best to keep a wary eye on the basics in our lives -- where does our
food, <br>
electricity, fuel, etc. come from, and will it keep coming? Is the
division of <br>
labor which we've become totally dependent on really going to go on <br>
forever? Anyone feel like investing in some nice high-paying Spanish <br>
bonds? 25% unemployment in Spain these days. What are they all going to
<br>
do? <br>
<br>
Thumpe's right -- gardening is good. Not because it is financially
profitable <br>
right now, but because the food is better than store-bought, and
growing it <br>
teaches people how to do it successfully, and how to use the produce
and <br>
plant the right amounts at the right times. Someday they might really
need this <br>
skill. Plus some plants like fruit trees and berry bushes and nut trees
<br>
need time to grow. <br>
<br>
Best, <br>
Susan<br>
</font></small><br>
</font>Bill Fritz wrote: </font>
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face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<div><font style="background-color: transparent;"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Susan, while I'd agree that this
world is indeed changing...</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div>However, I would respectfully suggest that Wall Street
is not at fault for the massive Student Loan mess... it is the US Govt,
the Colleges, & the Professors who encouraged students to take on
too much debt at too young an age. I'll also fault the parents, though
the students are by law allowed to make their own decisions, and indeed
do so too willingly.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Easy loan money from the USGovt encourages students to
step up to more expensive colleges, and only encourages the Colleges
& the Professors to raise their rates.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The law of supply & demand... except in this case,
Wall Street had nothing to do w/ it.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Best Regards... Bill Fritz, St Louis</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
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<div><small><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">What
I see is one more way in which this country has paid for letting <br>
Wall Street put most of the young and educated into indentured
servitude <br>
via student loans.</font></small></div>
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